 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 278 pages
...so very well enlarged upon in the preface to his works, that wit and fine writing do not consist so much in advancing things that are new, as in giving things that are known an agreeable turn. It is impossible for us, who live in the latter ages of the world, to make observations in criticism, morality,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 412 pages
...has so well enlarged upon in the preface to his works : That wit and fine writing doth not consist so much in advancing things that are new, as in giving things that are known an agreeable turn. It is impossible for us who live in the latter ages of the world, to make observations in criticism, morality,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 406 pages
...has so well enlarged upon in the preface to his works : That wit and fine writing doth not consist so much in advancing things that are new, as in giving things that are known an agreeable turn. It is impossible for us who live in the latter ages of the world, to make observations in criticism, morality,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 408 pages
...has so well enlarged upon in the preface to his works: That wit and fine writing doth not consist so much in advancing things that are new, as in giving things that are known an agreeable turn. It is impossible for us who live in the latter ages of the world, to make observations in criticism, morality,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...of England. TESTIMONIES OF AUTHORS. 395 wit and fine writing doth not consist so much in ;ulv mieing things that are new, as in giving things that are known an agreeable turn. It is impossible for ne, who lire in the latter ages of the world, to make observations in criticism, morality,... | |
 | Literature - 1826 - 450 pages
...Boileau, one of the greatest writers of hi, day, says " that wit and fine writing do not consist so much in advancing things that are new, as in giving things that are known an agreeahle turn." If one author's writings suggest a thoogtt to another, which he improves, it canoot... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 pages
...well enlarged upou in the preface to his works : that wit and fine writing doth not cousist so mnch t Hector's feet he lies, He sternly views him, and trinmphing cries : L agreeahle turn. It is impossihle for us, who live in the latter ages of the world, to make ohservatious... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 228 pages
...has so well enlarged upon in the preface to his works : that wit and fine writing doth not consist so much in advancing things that are new, as in giving things that are known an agreeable turn. It is impossible for us, who live in the latter ages of the world, to make observations in criticism, morality,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1828 - 222 pages
...has so ' well enlarged upon in the Preface to his Works, 'that wit and fine writing do not consist so much 'in advancing things that are new, as in giving 'things that are known an agreeable turn. It i II uncommon lights. If a reader examines Horace's "Artof Poetry he will find but few precepts in... | |
 | James Lawson - Short stories, American - 1830 - 276 pages
...were true, we have the authority of Boileau to urge, " that wit, and fine writing, do not consist so much in advancing things that are new, as in giving things that are known an agreeable turn." To those, also, who exclaim, that every thing written in our day is no more than what the ancients... | |
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That wit and fine writing doth not consist so much in advancing things that are new, as in giving things that are known an agreeable turn. 
